MONTREAL, July 8, 2013 — (PRNewswire) — Two-time Emmy® award recipient, Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced today the release of
Toon Boom® Animate™ 3 and
Toon Boom® Animate Pro™ 3. Dedicated to creating frame-by-frame and cut-out rigging animation, these new versions offer the most comprehensive set of features to professional animators, all in one software.

Toon Boom Animate 3 Highlights:

Toon Boom Animate Pro 3 Highlights:

True Pencil Animate 3 gives you the ability to draw with True Pencil, a pencil line with variable thickness that supports pressure sensitivity. Draw clean lines with the pencil and have the ability to modify the lines easily. You can apply the style across hundreds of drawings. Incorporate texture on your lines for cool effects.

Texture Brushes Animate allows you to draw with texture brushes using the Brush tool. Take advantage of this to create rough drawings just like you would on paper, simulating that pencil-on-paper feeling.

True Pencil Animate Pro 3 gives you the ability to draw with True Pencil, a pencil line with variable thickness that supports pressure sensitivity. Draw clean lines with the pencil and have the ability to modify the lines easily. Incorporate texture on your lines for cool effects.

Tool Presets Toolbar When creating paperless animation, you often want to save frequently used brushes or pencils so you can quickly go back to those preferences. Using the new Tool Presets toolbar, you can save presets for any tool, remembering the properties of that tool.

Tool Presets Toolbar When working in cut-out animation, you often want to save standard brush or pencil settings for different areas of your character rig. Using the new Tool Presets toolbar, you can save presets for any tool, remembering the properties of that tool.

Both products are now supercharged on a
64-bit core. This gives you the freedom to use more of the computer's resources, and output high-resolution files for a professional-quality production. In addition, they both support standard two-finger
Touch Gestures for zooming, rotating, and scaling of the canvas when using a tablet. Finally, they both benefit from
interface enhancements designed to simplify workflow and streamline the animation process.

Watch the
Take a Tour videos for
Animate 3 and
Animate Pro 3 to see these animation software packages in action!

Pricing and Availability Purchase Toon Boom Animate 3 for $699 US and Toon Boom Animate Pro 3 for $1199 US. Customers owning Animate 1 and 2 can upgrade to version 3 for $299 US. Customers owning Animate Pro 1 and 2 can upgrade to version 3 for $499 US.

About Toon Boom Animation Inc.Toon Boom Animation Inc. (
toonboom.com), a Corus® Entertainment Inc. company and a 2012 and 2005 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award recipient, is the worldwide leader in digital content and animation creation software, delivering products and services online to its global community. Toon Boom carries user-friendly applications for all, catering to children, home users, creative professionals as well as students, educators and schools. Toon Boom is fully dedicated to education and goes far beyond just developing technology and curriculums that enhance the classroom experience. Toon Boom is an influential advocate of bringing industry and education together, while partnering with value-added partners to help students achieve their goals.

At the high-end studio level, Toon Boom offers a wide product range from powerful pre-production tools to leading-edge animation production solutions. Relying on its extensive expertise in animation production, Toon Boom provides consulting services in the fields of optimization, pipeline integration, production assistance and custom development.